Thursday, April 21, 2011

I am so, so, excited about what I have to share with you today...Advance Readers Copies of my new middle-grade book, LIESL & PO!! Some of the sketches aren't final, but the ARCs come swaddled in this absolutely gorgeous box; check out the pictures below. Isn't it magic??

DON'T YOU WANT ONE???

Well, GOOD. Because I'm giving away THREE COPIES NOW, and I'll give away THREE COPIES EACH MONTH until the book comes out in October.

You might be asking--Why am I so nice? Because I love you, of course!

You might ALSO be asking, how do I enter to win?? Well, in this round, I'm going to keep it simple. You get +1 entry for responding to this post (with your email, of course), and telling me what your favorite book was when you were a little kid. (Mine was probably Matilda, by Roald Dahl, or the Redwall Series, by the brilliant and recently deceased Brian Jacques). Please remember to include your email address!Additionally, you get +2 for being a follower of my blog, and + 3 for twittering about it. If you do a blog post about the contest/my first foray into middle-grade, you get a whopping +4!

Yay! My favorite book when I was little was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, and in fact is still probably my favorite. I tweeted about the contest, too: http://twitter.com/#!/Tahleen/status/61193758913462272

My absolute favorite book as a kid was Martin the Warrior, by the above mentioned Brian Jacques. I got it a school book fair and spent the rest of the evening lost in it. Read through the open house, through dinner, through bedtime, finally stumbled downstairs SOBBING at two in the morning and scared the living daylights out of my mother. I had just never CARED about characters that way before!And congrats on the MG! Very exciting!~Dotrequiemofrain@hotmail.com

The BFG by Roald Dahl was my favorite book as a little kid. To this day, it remains my all time favorite childrens book. I have since passed it down to my kids who also enjoy it :) I *love* the cover for Liesl & Po, it looks amazing! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!

My favorite book as a kid were the Amelia books by Marissa Moss. I read those things so many times!!areadingnook[at]yahoo[dot]comI'm a follower and I tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/weareattached/status/61195769369198592THANKS! Can't wait to read it!

My favorite books as a kid: A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine L'Engle, and THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE by C.S. Lewis. I still want to meet a faun, and find disembodied brains even more disturbing than they are!

I'm a new follower of your blog, so my total is 3.

Thanks for the giveaway!Schuyler EsperanzaEmail: wholewidewords@yahoo.com

I remember reading A Bargain for Frances over and over again. I had a friend like Thelma, so I guess I could relate.

sherri@sherrigordon.com

P.S. I also did a RT on twitter(SherriMGordon) about your contest. And, if you would send me some additional info about the book, I will post it on my blog (writeon-smgordon.blogspot.com) and on FB ... you can just send press materials or whatever to the e-mail above.

Those are absolutely ADORABLE. And you've pretty much named my two favorite MG books of all time. I was reading Matilda the first time my parents discovered my reading after bedtime with my flashlight, and I literally had a Redwall-reading competition with one of my guy classmates back in fourth grade. I also loved the Merlin series and The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce. :)

I think that I have too many books to really choose a "favorite" however I think one of the most memorable is Green Eggs and Ham, because that was the first actually book I read. However even at fourteen now, I think my favorite series in Cirque Du Freak!

I re-tweeted on what you had tweeted about this. My twitter username is: TheRealDevonM Also I can't find the button to follow the blog, but I follow you on twitter and friended you on FB, so I check when a new blog is blogged.My email is: devontaylormarcus@yahoo.com

Oooo hard to say! I love books!Probably Harry Potter! My grandma used to read them to me >_<my email is korena.daniel@yahoo.com+1 being a follower +2 commenting+3 for about to make a twitter +4 for about to blog

I had so many favorites growing up - the most memorable was Tuck Everlasting because my 4th grade teacher read it to us every single day after lunch. I still hear her voice when I think of it. :) Now I teach 7th grade and read to my kids but not as faithfully.

PS Saw you speak at TLA last week - GREAT insight! I took one of your discussion guides back to my one of my students and she was all smiles. She's read Delirium at least four times this year.

My fave book as a kid was "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine. I still have three copies of that book (each with a different cover) and i would make all of my friends read it too! Gail Carson Levine was my fave author as a kid and i have all of her books which i still read from time to time!

The BFG by Raoald Dahl was all time favorite book as a kid. I remember picking it up in maybe the first grade and thinking it was the BIGGEST BOOK EVER. Another favorite is Harry Potter, which is the reason why I fell in love with reading in the first place.

Hi Lauren, Thanks for the opportunity. One of my most favorite books in grade school was MANDY by Julie Edwards (Julie Andrews). I bought it with my own money and I still have it. :)whoRuBlog@aol.com 1+ for comment2 + for follower3+ Tweet4+ And I posted your contest on my blog with an article titled Brilliant Novels by Brilliant Writers: http://www.whorublog.com/?p=793

I'm a new fan of your writing but I love middle grade fiction! When I was younger I loved mystery series - especially Cam Jensen and the Encyclopedia Brown books! I was also (and still am, actually!) a huge fan of James Howe and read pretty much everything and anything by Avi.

I'm so excited for you!My favorite books were the Madeline Series, which were about a little girl in Paris. I was "reading" the first one at 18 months (more like I had it completely memorized)! Now, I read them every so often for a pick-me-up.I love children's books. They made me the reader I am, and let me grow up in hundreds of magical worlds. That is why I love reading fiction now.I will definitely get a copy of your book by October, if not sooner *fingers crossed*Thank you for the opportunity!-Kendall disneygirl11@me.com (I am also a follower of your blog!)

Hooray for more Lauren Oliver books! Your ARCs are beautiful! My favorite book as a child was Matilda by Roald Dahl, because reading about all the new worlds Matilda found through literature made me want to do the same thing.+2 I follow your blogconsumedbybooks[at]gmail[dot]com

What a sweet looking book! As a child hmmm....I read so many books I'm not sure. But I would say THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE series. Those were the first non-picture-type books I read and I loved the history in them. A sort of link to the past.

What an awesome giveaway! I would totally love to win an ARC that comes in an adorable box like that!

My favorite book as a child was "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine. It's still my favorite children's novel. I loved that Ella knew the prince before the ball and that it wasn't the traditional love-at-first-sight story. It was my first time seeing a new version of a fairy tale. Today, this is one of my favorite genres and I'm even writing my own fractured fairy tale. GCL set me on this path!

+1 entry+2 for being a follower of my blog (Through Blogger/Google Feed)+3 for twittering about it: (http://twitter.com/#!/OliverBooks/status/61192973773307904 retweet)+4 blog post about the contest/my first foray into middle-grade (http://abackwardsstory.blogspot.com/2011/04/cover-reveal-liesel-po-by-lauren-oliver.html)

Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear was my favorite book when I was a kid because my German grandmother would read it to me when ever I would visit her house and spend the night. My other favorite book was the Frog & Toad Series, idk why, but I constantly read those books...guude olde days!

Yay!!! Awesome giveaway/s!! :)My favourite book when I was young was definitely Pepper Dreams by Colin Thompson - it still stands as one of the best books of all time, for me anyway! :) The Chronicles of Narnia would have been right up there too, if I had read them as a kid.

I follow your blog, and tweeted too, at http://twitter.com/#!/Elleira92/status/61277204889350145

When I was little my favorite book was probably Farmer Boy from the Little House on the Prairie series. Most likely because I was partially in love with Alfanso. Maybe I still am. OR it is more likely that I was in love with the Thanksgiving-sized meals he and his family ate for each stinking meal. Yeah, thats probably more likely :D(+1)

My email: jasonlall9@aol.comMy favorite book when I was a kid was Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davis. Wonderful story and beautiful illustrations. "Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to." (+1)I am already following you on BLOGGER and GOODREADS. (+2) AND I wrote about this on the book news section of my book review blog. (Over 1000 views in 4 months!) http://jasonsbookstack.blogspot.com/p/book-news.html (+4)

Ooh, it's absolutely gorgeous! Want!My favourite book when I was young was Wise Child by Monica Furlong, I LOVE that book! It's so magical and I wanted to be a witch when I was little. This book made it sound like being a princess, which was what I wanted to be if I couldn't be a witch.

OMSquee, this looks super!I have gone through a lot of book phases, even as a kid, but there were a few that remained constant:as a young kid, I was obsessed with The Velveteen Rabbit. I mean obsessed, too, that's not an exaggeration.As I got a little older, they were almost all classics, especially Oliver Twist, Little Men and Anne of Green Gables, all of which still hold a special place in my heart (especially Anne).I tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/DarlingMisty/status/61511242967298048 and am a follower!

I don't understand it now but I always loved rain is not my indian name... I still own it! Or I loved Oh, crumps! by Lee Bock... Of course she was my elementary school librarian. So I'm kind of biased. :]

When I was little I didn't have a favorite book 'cause my parents didn't really read to me but now that I have a daughter and I read to her a lot, I'll probably choose Green eggs and ham!!Love the cover and box!!I RT on tweeter!!And I follow your blogbookittyblog@gmail.com

Unfortunately, I'm not on Twitter or Live Journal (or any blog site for that matter) but I love love love reading yours & others from favorite YA authors. It's so amazing that you guys do that! It keeps the wait in between books bearable! LOL.

Anyway, my favorite books as a kid were probably Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss (inspired me to write in my own notebooks!) & the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary. I think I'm going to re-read those soon! I miss Ramona :)

Points:+1 for comment: My favorite series growing up was probably Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events. I was so heartbroken when both of those series ended, but at least they now have the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, which I just visited by the way. As a side note, butterbeer is quite delicious.+2 for being a follower

Awesome giveaway!! I can't wait to read this. I've already read Before I Fall and just bought Delirium, finishing The Mortal Instruments for the fourth time before I get started :DThank you!! :)

Oh, LIESL & PO looks very good! I love the raised bits of the cover. I'd love to read it with/to my 11-year-old sister as I'm trying to encourage her to take pleasure in reading.

When I was younger, my favorite books were James and the Giant Peach and The Witches (and The Twits) by Roald Dahl, Are You There God It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume, and Number the Stars and The Giver by Louis Lowry (sorry, I couldn't pick just one!).

Hooray! I can't wait to read it!My favorite book when I was growing up was probably...Charlotte's Web. I loved it so hard. And, to this day, I have a huge soft spot for books that are set on farms, or in the countryside somewhere far away from big, bustling cities. I also loved The Witches by Roald Dahl, too. It's a close second. But Charlotte wins out in the end.

I commented (+1) and I'm a follower! (+2), and I can't wait to read Liesl & Po!

(I apologize in advance for my lack of html/linking knowledge. I be too lazy to look it up.)and if an lj post counts as a blog post...+4 points here--http://hllx3.livejournal.com/7747.html

+3 points for my my tweet here-- http://twitter.com/#!/hllx3 ( I also forgot how to get a single tweet on a page...sorry!)

and +1 point for this post-- I loved The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss when I was a kid. I read everything I could get my hands on, but this one I read so much I memorized it. It annoyed my grandmother so much, she hid it. :( haha but I brings back great memories of learning to read.

I am so excited for this one! It sounds super cute and I am amazed by your first two books, so this one can't be anywhere short of awesome! Also, I love that box/book combo - it is really unique and beautiful.

My favorite picture books growing up were Where the Wild Things Are, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Then I moved on to the Biscuit books (first chapter books!). The first real books that I really liked were A Series of Unfortunate Events, Gathering Blue and The Borrowers!

I can't really say I had a favorite book as a child...I read everything I could put my hands on. But one that stands out for me is "Where the Red Fern Grows" because it was the first book that made me cry.

I must say I am SUPER excited you have written a middle school book!!!! BNow I can share you with evern more of my kiddos at school!!!! What a super way to start the school year next year!!!! You super rock!!

My favorite books when I really started to read alone were the Judy Blume books and Beverly Cleary.

I vidily rememeber my mom taking us to the library and checking out mounds of books for us. My daughter loves to bounce from school straight up to the public library to see what they have that I might not have at school.

I'D LOVE TO ADD THIS TO THE LIBRARY @ SA! Of course you know I will buy one if I don't win one because my kiddos puffy heart you already!! :)

Hey Lauren! My favorite books when I was a kid was the Babysitters Little Sisters books by Ann M. Martin(I bet not many people remember them). hlwindham@gmail.comI also wanted to comment on how amazing the narrator for the Delirium audio book was!!

My favorite book when I was a kid? I would have to say Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. It may seem slightly sinister a choice, but this book offered me so much insight into history AND a little girl's strength. I still remember myself shuddering while reading it.I've just discovered your blog - I'm very curious about your books!Aimee - aimee_levesque@hotmail.com

I’m from a little country, Denmark, on a slightly different continent, so I’m not sure you know/recognize my favorite books. As a child I mostly read books by Nordic writers, especially Astrid Lindgren, Åke Holmberg and Ulf Löfgren but I also LOVED the Little House of the Prairie series.

Oh wow, I would absolutely adore a copy! My favorite book as a child was...it's a tie: Stuart Little by E.B While (I wanted to be small and fit through drains like Stuart) and Behind The Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassady (lovely book about a lonely orphan sent to live with estranged family who befriends ghost-inhabited dolls in the attic).

great! if it is international, i'm obviously in :Di'm still little (14 years xD) but when i was... litter?? no, smaller (:D) i loved (and still) Harry Potter saga, these are books i will never forget... <3thanks or the opportunity ;)

Hey Lauren! My favorite book as a kid was The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, written by Avi. I have read it over and over, wore out my childhood copy and had to buy a new one because the pages were falling out.

I follow your blog with Google Friend Connect, but really I read it in my RSS feedreader.

I follow you on Twitter. I just twittered about it here: http://twitter.com/#!/MrsMHalpern/status/66668443314823169

I posted a blog about your book and contest here:http://nblo.gs/hytMtAnd please please please go there and click through the links to the reviews I wrote about Before I Fall and Delirium! :)

My favorite book growing up was, hands down, THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster. Everyone should read it, even now. What can be better than a little boy who drives through a cardboard tollbooth and into a magical world of grammar, dolldrums, and infinity?? Nothing.

Ohhhhh Liesl & Po. I MUST read your new book! I think it's great that you've written something for MG-readers. When I was in that age group I was really into reading.My favorite "kids"-Book used to be "A Little Princess: The Story of Sara Crewe" by Frances Hodgson Burnet! Also the first few Anne of Green Gables. My Email: mita612 (at) yahoo dot com

hi my favorite book when I was a little kid was fame school, in that time I wanted to be famous , you know like an actress +2 for being a follower, and + 3 for twittering about it. diana_peas@hotmail.com

+1 hmm difficult desicion probably any of the Enid Blyton books or the never ending story by Michael Ende.melissasanchezdempsey@hotmail.com (if it's international^^)+2 Follower+3 Tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/MelissaDempsey1/status/72379563027611649

My favorite children's books... Well, as a series, hands down is Harry Potter. Rowling seamlessly creates such a rich world, and the fact that her books grew in maturity as her audience did was pure brilliance.

As a standalone, a collection of Grimm's fairytales held my attention for a long time, as well as a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein. That man is my hero! Great contest :)

donnakoppelman@gmail.com. I discovered the fabulous old Maud Hart Lovelace series about Betsy, Tacy, and Tib and still love them to this day. Might be the original middle grade series (before anyone called anything middle grade). I will blog about you (perfect follow-up to my recent blog about Delirium), tweet about you, and follow you! Thanks for putting forth great literature for young people.

I was a Hardy Boys reader- I'd ask for them for Christmas and for birthdays. I wonder what happened to those books? Oh yeah, I handed them down to my brother, and he used them as ramps for his Hot Wheels. Stupid boy.

pcottonbearcat (at) gmail (dot) com

+1 entry +2 for being a follower + 3 for tweet, found here: http://twitter.com/#!/TMPaulaRL/status/72408772554919937

I was absolutely in love with Goodnight Moon. I loved the art work! I made my mom read it to me every night for three months straight. That's such a ahmazing box!alissarhode@gmail.com+2 for being a follower+1 comment

+1 The book the I do remember from my childhood that I enjoyed would be Dr Seuess' Green Eggs and Ham... it was funny how he kept pestering him and in the end he liked it. Don't judge a book by it's cover =)

The books I can remember loving most when I was younger are the Babysitter's Club books. I related a lot to Maryanne, but I wanted to be like Dawn so badly. Figuring out what exactly "California casual" meant made for an interesting wardrobe for a year or so there.

As a small child, it was “Beatrice Doesn’t Want To”, which is kind of ironic as it’s about a girl who doesn’t like trying new things (and reading), and ends up trying and loving it. I thought it was only fitting that this was my favourite childhood book, as I love reading now! That, and Harry Potter =P.

My favourite books as a child were The Faraway Tree by Enid Blighton and probably most of Roald Dahl's books, but in particular the BFG, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, and Matilda - I was a Roald Dahl fanatic!

I might add all these young ones adding Harry Potter as their favourite are making me feel super old at 27! lol

One of my favourites as a kid, and still is a favourite of mine, is Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild. I loved anything to do with ballet/horses as a kid, but this book was a full on obsession of mine.+2 for being a follower.

I didn't have a single favorite novel from when I was a child, but I was insanely in love with the Fear Street novels by R.L. Stine. Especially the Fear Street Saga, which told how everything began, basically. I still have some of those books and I will always remember cracking into a pile that I had just checked out from the library. Whether it was Goosebumps or Fear Street, R.L. Stine will forever be a part of my childhood and I only hope that someday my children will have an author like that for them.

Candy Floss Jacqueline Wilson was my all time favourite children's book I carried it with me everywhere. Maryann NixonSmileess_ox@hotmail.comI follow you on twitter (@MazzNixon) and will tweet about you :D Just followed you on this :DWould love if you checked out my blog where I review books I've read. I only started it last week but I've done a review for both Before I Fall and Delirium.

http://wordsontheshelf.blogspot.com/

Hope you like what I said.By the way, I was so thrilled to hear there's going to be a sequel to Delirium! x

It's hard to choose a favorite book from childhood, because I read ALL the time...but I guess The Witches by Roald Dahl, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, and Witch Hunt by Wendi Corsi Staub are probably up there...they are certainly the most worn out from re-reading them!medavis4(at)bsu(dot)edu

I'm so sorry but I had many that were equal in terms of how much I loved and re-read them in grade school: Alice In Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass; Anne of Green Gables; Little Women; the Laura Ingalls Wilder books; the Ramona Quimby books and Ellen Tebbits; Wuthering Heights (not exactly a kid's book); Island of the Blue Dolphins; Charlie and the Chocolate FactoryCharlotte's Web;The Girl Who Ran Away, by Joan G. Robinson;National Velvet